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day's sure to be a blast. "It's kind of a fun way to spend an afternoon, you're with family and friends in your car and it's for a good cause," she said.The money is undesignated, which means it's not given towards any particular program or equipment fund at the hospital. Instead it is flex-ible money the hospital can use immediately for anything it needs. Winden said that's an important part of keeping the hospital running as well as possible. "It really

does help our hospital meet its annual needs. That's really special," she said. "The designated pools (for cancer programs or equipment) can get too big for the needs, because we're a rural hospital. So if we have too much money in one fund the hospital can't do its job as best as it needs to." Last year's inaugural rally had 26 cars registered, with about 150 people participating in total. The rally route meandered through the northern part of the hospital's catchment area, from Greely and Osgoode all the way to Embrun and Chesterville before it arrived back in Winchester. The event raised $57,000 last year, and this year the foundation hopes to hit $100,000. This year's route is still a secret, because teams have to figure it out using landmarks and clues set by the organizers. Community engagement manager Emily Lerner said the best part of the day is hearing enthusiastic drivers recounting everything they experienced."The one thing that's always really cool is partici-pants say they see things in their communities that they've never seen before, or see them differently," she said. "They don't usually notice or have time to see them."The rally will start at the Winchester Hospital at 10 a.m. with late registrations, and

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It’s the way it was ... and the way it still is.

We found beauty, bliss, purple sand, and good

vibrations along the old Hippie Highway of

Northern California.

Out along California’s northern coast, where

the continent begins, there’s an almost-too-

beautiful stretch near San Francisco where

time just seems to stop. Locals you meet in

coffee shops (which usually double as gas sta-

tions or general stores or all three) will tell

you that an energy runs through this part of

the world. It’s easy to roll your eyes, to dismiss

such talk as so much crunchy California New

Ageism. But if you’ve traveled enough, you

know that there are points on the globe where

the energy is different, special. There’s some-

thing undeniable that grabs you.

Like it grabbed the six college kids I met one

afternoon at Pfeiffer Beach, a local secret of a

spot in Big Sur. They were from Minnesota.

The kind of kids you want your own kid to

grow up to be. When I met them, it was like

a half-dozen golden retrievers had accosted

me. They were all shaggy and full of youth

and Midwestern yearning and curiosity—and

they still addressed people as “sir.” They’d just

finished classes, and before starting their

summer jobs they had commandeered one

of their parent’s Windstars (the one with the

NPR bumper sticker I’d seen in the parking

lot) and driven two days straight to get here.

They knew about this place from the Beach

Boys’ 1973 song cycle “California Saga,” which

features Mike Love reading from the poem

“The Beaks of Eagles,” Robinson Jeffers’s ode

to Big Sur. And now they needed to see it for

themselves. To touch it.

“Excuse me, sir,” one of them asked me as my

gal and I walked near the water’s edge. “Do

you know where the purple sand is?”

Ah, yes, the purple sand. There’s a bit of beach

around the bend that not many people know

about, where the sand is eggplant purple. If

you see it at dusk, with the tide coming up and

the low-angle sunlight casting long shadows,

it’s…well, better that you see it than let me

try to describe it. So I pointed the kids in the

right direction and they ambled off, bursting

with life and happiness.

Now I’m no geologist, nor a psychic—unlike

the lady I met out here, dressed all in purple,

who advertised herself as a “reader of vibes,

vibrations and listener of the music your

body and mind compose”—but I do consider

myself a pretty observant traveler.And while

I can’t prove it, I would bet the purple sand

runs beneath the whole stretch of California

coast you might call the Hippie Trail, from

Big Sur up to Bodega Bay. Perhaps it’s the

source of the unseen energy that fuels the

bodies and souls of the people who live here.

It’s certainly a major part of what attracted so

many beatniks and hippies to the area in the

late fifties and sixties (remember the Esalen

Institute in Big Sur, ground zero for the so-

called human potential movement?) and has

The sun, the sky, the

water, and the earth

all come together

continued to lure all kinds of environmental-

ists, devotees of Eastern religions, slow-food

disciples, surfers, and other free spirits. The

rest of the world may have heave-ho’d the

values of the Age of Aquarius for the Age

of Acquisitiveness a long time ago, but that

never happened here, despite the inevitable

influx of money and gentrification. There’s a

certain trueness to everything you see and

everyone you meet. If anything, this area will

always be about what one might call the Age

of the Authentic.

Spend time on this coast and you feel again

what matters—the beauty in the way the sun,

the sky, the water, and the earth all come

together, untainted by snobs or aesthetes.

Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy sensory pleasures

as much as the next guy. Before heading out

here, I spent several nights in San Francisco

and indulged at more than a few restaurants,

laid my head on some triple-digit-thread-count

pillowcases. But maybe that’s why so many

people are drawn here, feel the need to make

the journey (go ahead, call it a pilgrimage).

Maybe they, like me, are searching for a hit

of something genuine in a world that seems

to have spun a bit too much off-kilter. Maybe

we’re all looking to get in touch with the old

sod again and feel the (purple) sand beneath

our toes.Europeans you meet on holiday here often

compare the landscape to Cinque Terre on

the Italian Riviera or the rugged coast of

southwestern France, near Biarritz and Saint-

Jean-de-Luz. But with a difference. As one

Italian told me, “This land is what we used

to have. No development. No crowds.” Then he

paused. “Do you think you can hold on to it?”

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One Metro train slammed into the

back of another on the Red Line

at the height of the evening rush

yesterday, killing at least six and

injuring 70 others in the deadliest

accident in Metrorail’s 33-year-

history.

Metro officials expected the death toll

to rise to at least nine.

The impact of the crash was so

powerful that the trailing train was

left atop the first train. Witnesses told

stories of rescues and people helping

others amid the chaos. Firefighters had

to use heavy rescue equipment to cut

open the cars to reach people trapped

inside, and D.C. Mayor Adrian M.

Fenty (D) said fire officials were still

going through the trains last night to

make sure they had recovered all the

bodies.

One of the dead was Martin Johnson,

42, of Springfield, the operator of

the train that rear-ended another

stopped in front of it just outside

the Fort Totten station in Northeast

Washington, Metro officials said.

No one answered the phone last night

at Johnson’s home.

Metro and rescue officials gave no

details about the operator or the other

fatalities. The crash occurred just after

5 p.m., and traffic on the train lines and

highways was severely affected.

Metro, like all transit agencies, is

supposed to have numerous safety

systems in place to prevent crashes,

and i t was not

clear what caused

yesterday’s accident.

T h e N a t i o n a l

Transportation Safety

Board is investigating

the crash and has assigned

a railroad investigator

and two specialists from

its office of transportation

disaster assistance. The Metro

board is scheduled to hold a

special meeting at 2 p.m. today.

Although the investigation is

just beginning, certain systems

are designed to prevent an accident

like yesterday’s. During morning and

afternoon rush hours, all trains except

longer eight-car trains typically

operate in automatic mode, meaning

their movements are controlled by

computerized systems and the central

Operations Control Center.

Both t ra ins in

yesterday’s crash

were six-car trains.

B u t o f f i c i a l s

wo u l d not say

whether the trains were

in automat ic mode

or being operated

manually.

Investigators will probably

focus on a possible failure of

Metro’s computerized signal

system, which is designed to

prevent trains from coming

close enough to collide, as well as

operator error, according to aformer

Metro officials. A Metro source said

Johnson was relatively inexperienced,

ranking 18th from the bottom on the

seniority list of 523 train operators.

He had been a Metro employee since

January 2007, officials said. Train

operators must first operate a bus for a

year before they can apply to operate

the train. They then receive about 12

weeks of training. The computerized

system should work whether trains

are being operated manually or by

computer.

But even if the signal system failed to

stop the train, the operator should have

intervened and applied emergency

brakes, safety experts familiar

with Metro’s operations say. The

position of the second train after

the crash – the fact that its first

car came to rest atop the other

train – indicates that the

second train was traveling

at high speed. In the section

of track where the accident occurred,

the maximum speed is supposed to be

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of the ongoing NTSB investigation.

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Washington DC Newspaper

One Metro train slammed into the

back of another on the Red Line

at the height of the evening rush

yesterday, killing at least six and

injuring 70 others in the deadliest

accident in Metrorail’s 33-year-

history.

Metro officials expected the death toll

to rise to at least nine.

The impact of the crash was so

powerful that the trailing train was

left atop the first train. Witnesses told

stories of rescues and people helping

others amid the chaos. Firefighters had

to use heavy rescue equipment to cut

open the cars to reach people trapped

inside, and D.C. Mayor Adrian M.

Fenty (D) said fire officials were still

going through the trains last night to

make sure they had recovered all the

bodies.

One of the dead was Martin Johnson,

42, of Springfield, the operator of

the train that rear-ended another

stopped in front of it just outside

the Fort Totten station in Northeast

Washington, Metro officials said.

No one answered the phone last night

at Johnson’s home.

Metro and rescue officials gave no

details about the operator or the other

fatalities. The crash occurred just after

5 p.m., and traffic on the train lines and

highways was severely affected.

Metro, like all transit agencies, is

supposed to have numerous safety

systems in place to prevent crashes,

and i t was not

clear what caused

yesterday’s accident.

T h e N a t i o n a l

Transportation Safety

Board is investigating

the crash and has assigned

a railroad investigator

and two specialists from

its office of transportation

disaster assistance. The Metro

board is scheduled to hold a

special meeting at 2 p.m. today.

Although the investigation is

just beginning, certain systems

are designed to prevent an accident

like yesterday’s. During morning and

afternoon rush hours, all trains except

longer eight-car trains typically

operate in automatic mode, meaning

their movements are controlled by

computerized systems and the central

Operations Control Center.

Both t ra ins in

yesterday’s crash

were six-car trains.

B u t o f f i c i a l s

wo u l d not say

whether the trains were

in automat ic mode

or being operated

manually.

Investigators will probably

focus on a possible failure of

Metro’s computerized signal

system, which is designed to

prevent trains from coming

close enough to collide, as well as

operator error, according to aformer

Metro officials. A Metro source said

Johnson was relatively inexperienced,

ranking 18th from the bottom on the

seniority list of 523 train operators.

He had been a Metro employee since

January 2007, officials said. Train

operators must first operate a bus for a

year before they can apply to operate

the train. They then receive about 12

weeks of training. The computerized

system should work whether trains

are being operated manually or by

computer.

But even if the signal system failed to

stop the train, the operator should have

intervened and applied emergency

brakes, safety experts familiar

with Metro’s operations say. The

position of the second train after

the crash – the fact that its first

car came to rest atop the other

train – indicates that the

second train was traveling

at high speed. In the section

of track where the accident occurred,

the maximum speed is supposed to be

58 mph. Metro officials would not say

how fast the trains were going because

of the ongoing NTSB investigation.

There was no maintenance work

scheduled in the relatively long, flat

section of track between the stations.

For many weeks, trains were slowed

because of a weakness in the track bed DC-295

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